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Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by IncreasePosts on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @02:17PM (#46517135)
Obviously she was not everyone's first choice. She was almost no one's first choice. Democrat voters let her know that when they only gave her ~7% support in the 2020 primaries. Maybe a messy primary that everyone feels a part of would have been better than a few leaders of the Democratic party attempting to anoint the next president. Maybe you think it was the responsible choice, but that certainly isn't what Obama thought in 2024, since he was pushing for open primaries before his hand was forced into endorsing Harris.

Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren both performed significantly better than Harris did in the 2020 primaries. Maybe one of them would have been the responsible choice.

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Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by JCattheATM on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @03:46PM (#46518439)
> Obviously she was not everyone's first choice. She was almost no one's first choice.

Right, but that's irrelevant. It doesn't matter that she wasn't the ideal choice, it only matters that she was so much significantly better than the alternative.

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Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by IncreasePosts on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @11:52AM (#46528780)
Clearly that was a miscalculation then. Maybe because when people vote, most people don't think "Who is better - Trump or Harris?", they think "Do I like my party's nominee?"
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Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by JCattheATM on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @12:02PM (#46528936)
I agree, the problem is the voting population. Democracy doesn't work when you have such a petty ignorant population.
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Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by AnimalMuppet on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @02:23PM (#46517229)
Bernie Sanders vs. Trump. That would have been interesting. Two populists, but also two geriatric white men. Trump would have the advantage of insults and better media savvy, but Bernie would have the advantage of not being Trump (and not being tied to Biden either).
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